Foreign Sentence Examples

This resignation was possibly due to his dislike of Henry's foreign policy.

Large movements in any large foreign market are newsworthy.

Her file --two inches thick --was yet more proof that the world that seemed foreign to her really wasn't.

The cost of their imported food doubles, and I guarantee you the foreign-owned factory won't double wages as a result.

The room was a-chatter with foreign conversation, the words having nothing to do with national roots but the fanatic avocation of the gathered guests.

The concept of something more was as foreign to him as peace, and yet he wanted the image on the leaf to be real.

They exchanged a greeting in a foreign language that sounded like Russian before he held out his hand to her.

In point #7, war would cost you your foreign customers.

The summary of results might as well have been in a foreign language with the medical terminology, abbreviations and sprinkling of what seemed like random numbers.

There's nothing like it in old paintings, nothing like it in foreign lands--unless when we were off the coast of Spain.

Besides the soldiers who formed the picket line on either side, there were many curious onlookers who, jesting and laughing, stared at their strange foreign enemies.

I wanted to say the entire French Foreign hiding in the other room but before I could speak, we both could barely hear a voice.

Once a nation shows its willingness to seize foreign-owned property at will, foreign investors are reluctant to do business there again.

The idea of having to "earn a living" will be completely foreign to us.

There were two people present; their scent, although foreign, smelled deliciously inviting.

The frontier which they form is inconveniently long, enclosing an acute-angled wedge of foreign territory - the modern Baden and Wurttemberg.

The foreign trade is not large, and consists chiefly in the exportation of pineapples and other fruit.

Vara gave a flurry of urgent words in the foreign tongue, succeeding in dragging him to the edge of the forest before Taran yanked free.

Of the inhabitants born in the United States 61,508 were natives of Virginia, 40,301 of Ohio, 28,927 of Pennsylvania and 10,867 of Kentucky; and of the foreign-born there were 6J37 Germans, 334 2 Irish, 2921 Italians and 2622 English.

Both the foreign minister and our ambassador in Vienna knew him and valued him.

Her grip on his hand tightened, while she loosened her grip on the foreign magic in her body.

"How do you survive a life and a world that's so … foreign?" she rested her temple against her knee.

In the Goblet ministry of1886-1887he was minister of public instruction, and in the Bourgeois cabinet of1895-1896he held the portfolio for foreign affairs.

Imagine, he's even considering playing this game, and in some foreign country!

It has one of the highest per-capita incomes in the world, almost no crime, and no public or foreign debt.

This foreign bird's note is celebrated by the poets of all countries along with the notes of their native songsters.

To this party belonged the foreign nobles, Wolzogen, Wintzingerode, and others, chiefly Germans.

On all disputed points, whether commercial, religious or political, his advice was invariably sought by the foreign ministers and the Chinese alike.

Either one or both parents were foreign-born, and 18,232 were of German and 10,534 of Irish parentage, on both the father's and the mother's side.

That province was under the able government of Ali Vardi Khan, who peremptorily forbade the foreign settlers at Calcutta and Chandernagore to introduce feuds from Europe.

Rouvier himself took the portfolio of foreign affairs at this anxious juncture.

This is how our Founding Fathers intended our nation to behave: To try to achieve our foreign policy aims through negotiation and, if that failed, through economic sanctions.

He is one of the most remarkable, but to me most unpleasant of men--the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prince Adam Czartoryski....

In Vilna she had formed an intimacy with a young foreign prince.

In men Rostov could not bear to see the expression of a higher spiritual life (that was why he did not like Prince Andrew) and he referred to it contemptuously as philosophy and dreaminess, but in Princess Mary that very sorrow which revealed the depth of a whole spiritual world foreign to him was an irresistible attraction.

But to the generals, especially the foreign ones in the Russian army, who wished to distinguish themselves, to astonish somebody, and for some reason to capture a king or a duke--it seemed that now--when any battle must be horrible and senseless--was the very time to fight and conquer somebody.

Vara, the man who'd freed him from the underground and defied his father to place the foreign-born slave in an honored scout position, who'd bought his weapons, fed and clothed him when he was too poor to do so for himself.

He accompanied Peter to the White Sea (1694-1695); took part in the Azov campaign (1695); and was one of the triumvirate who ruled Russia during Peter's first foreign tour (1697-1698).

During his tenancy of office the system adopted at Shanghai was applied to the other treaty ports, so that when on Mr Lay's resignation Mr Hart was appointed inspector-general of foreign customs, he found himself at the head of an organization which collected a revenue of upwards of eight million taels per annum at fourteen treaty ports.

An attempt late in 1519 to seize Ferrara failed, and the pope recognized the need of foreign aid.

Hastings himself always regarded them as incidents in his general scheme of foreign policy.

A crisis was now approaching in foreign affairs which demanded all the experience and all the genius of Hastings for its solution.

Rouvier reproached the Foreign Minister with imprudence in the matter of Morocco, and after a heated discussion M.

The Nabataeans had already some tincture of foreign culture when they first appeared in history.

Mission Park (10 acres) here is adorned by native and foreign shrubs and by maples, elms, pines and arbor vitae, and "Haystack Monument" in this park marks the place where Samuel John Mills (1783-1818), in 1806, held the prayer meeting which was the forerunner of the American foreign missionary movement.

Sometimes countries simply nationalize industries, so that an enterprise once owned by a private company, often a foreign-based one, is taken over by the government or "the people."

They would say, If government is obligated to protect its citizens from a foreign invader, then it is obligated to protect them from a criminal.

Then war can become obsolete, as foreign to us as slavery and public hangings.

As long as these states were to share a currency, a military, provide for interstate trade, and have a single foreign policy, they could retain the economic advantages of being a large nation while maximizing individual liberty and self-determination.

He had no lambskin cap on his head, nor had he a loaded whip over his shoulder, as when Rostov had seen him on the eve of the battle of Austerlitz, but wore a tight new uniform with Russian and foreign Orders, and the Star of St. George on his left breast.

But besides considerations of foreign policy, the attention of Russian society was at that time keenly directed on the internal changes that were being undertaken in all the departments of government.

How much then must the probability of fire be increased in an abandoned, wooden town where foreign troops are quartered.

It is evident that the normal blue is more or less diluted with extraneous white light, having its origin in reflections from the grosser particles of foreign matter with which the air is usually charged.

Norfolk is combined with Portsmouth in one customs district, the foreign trade of which in 1908 amounted to $11,326,817 in exports and $1,150,044 in imports.

She was beguiled by the romantic atmosphere of the foreign city.

They might even own foreign currencies the same way.

Hardly had the Horse Guards passed Rostov before he heard them shout, "Hurrah!" and looking back saw that their foremost ranks were mixed up with some foreign cavalry with red epaulets, probably French.

He was in a place, emotionally, that was totally foreign, and he couldn't begin to predict how this night would unfold.

Why cannot we know as much about heaven as we do about foreign countries?

The establishment of a post office in the town helped the town attract new businesses.

The flight of the tsarevich to a foreign potentate was a reproach and a scandal.

An agreement was come to by which Francis received patronage for his circle of friends, while Hastings was to be unimpeded in the control of foreign affairs.

Public attention, however, was chiefly concentrated on foreign policy.

This is all that his foreign education has done for him!

How strange, how extraordinary, how joyful it seemed, that her son, the scarcely perceptible motion of whose tiny limbs she had felt twenty years ago within her, that son about whom she used to have quarrels with the too indulgent count, that son who had first learned to say "pear" and then "granny," that this son should now be away in a foreign land amid strange surroundings, a manly warrior doing some kind of man's work of his own, without help or guidance.

These feelings were totally foreign and unwelcome.

She got the language from the language itself, and this is, next to hearing the language spoken, the way for any one to get a foreign tongue, more vital and, in the end, easier than our schoolroom method of beginning with the grammar.

He must minimize foreign influence, whether French, Spanish or German, in Italy.